Almost Twenty Questions . . .

This post comes out of a swath of questions that came up during our group discussions. They representing our general interests and many of these ideas have and will become enlarged on the site.

After much consideration, a lot of pushing around and a some casual editorial sight of hand, I've narrowed our original ideas into several broad groupings:
Observations & Phenomenological, Story Telling & Memory, Ethics, Gender & Body, Identity and Economics.

Gender Roles

Gender and sex are two different things. Gender is social and sex is physical. Where I grew up, and many other places, there are two genders, male and female. Most will be brought up and socialised according to one or the other.

Second Identity in Second Life?

How does the creation of a "new identity" in Second Life relate to your "real life" identity? What kind of experiments do we do with our avatars. Do we move the borders, if yes, does moving the borders in Second Life make it easier to transgress the same borders in Real Life?